Description
Lead Solution Architect (E-commerce) - Luton -up to £ per day
One of the UK's leading travel groups require a Lead Solution Architect to manage the architecture function of their E-commerce sites.
There are two key overarching accountabilities of this role:
- Technical project management and oversight of vendors/partners, ensuring they deliver high quality outputs related to the FCP architecture
- Architecture leadership, delving into the technical detail of each component to assure what is being proposed is viable and thorough, whilst protecting programme delivery timelines
The detailed accountabilities aligned to the technical project management include:
- Holding vendors to account to ensure documentation meets architecture standards, aligns to the defined end to end solution, as well as meets its business functional and non-functional requirements
- Identifying key areas where detailed design & build activities are at risk of deviating from the solution architecture(s), proposing appropriate remedial changes, working with stakeholders to curate a story backlog, and leading a team to gain hard evidence to conclude design decisions needed
- Collaborating with the Service Delivery team to define the support model for platforms and components in the end to end architecture
- Working with external parties, suppliers and internal members of the IT team and business units to refine and document the systems architecture and high level designs for workstreams within the programme.
Key skills for the role involve the following.
- Experience of designing/implementing solutions, including (desirable):
- Large, multi-technology, multi-vendor solutions
- Rules engines
- Shopping, pricing and merchandising
- Process orchestration
- Integration with third party service provider APIs (eg hotels)
- Experience of taking complex solution architectures through the build & implementation phases of major programmes, working to assure the on paper' solution is realised, and refinements are made as appropriate.
- Experience of SOA, API Design and distributed architectures.
- Practical experience of agile project delivery
- Demonstrable experience of designing high quality software solutions in line with business needs and timescales
- A good working knowledge of the airline and/or eCommerce industry
This position is based in Luton and offers a daily rate up to £750 per day for an initial 12 months followed by extensions.